• South Sudan land grab threatens rights: report
    • AFP
    • 23 Mar 2011

    Unregulated large-scale land acquisition in south Sudan by foreign companies threatens the rights of the people, with an area bigger than Rwanda earmarked for use by outside businesses, a report from Norwegian People's Aid warns.

  • Accaparement de terres à Madagascar par la société VARUN
    • BIMTT
    • 23 Mar 2011

    Vidéo sur l'accaparement de terres à Madagascar par la société VARUN de l'Inde. Réaction de la population. En Malgache. (Transcription en français en cours.)

  • GCC trade and investment flows: The emerging-market surge
    • EIU
    • 22 Mar 2011

    Report says that GCC investment in farmland in Africa and Latin America will continue to grow.

  • Middle East's investments in African farmlands are rooted in food security fears
    • Knowledge@Wharton
    • 22 Mar 2011

    The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.

  • Resident Minister condemns MP for incitement against Government
    • Awoko
    • 22 Mar 2011

    Political turmoil over Sierra Leone MP's nationwide broadcast inciting the people of Malen Chiefdom against the Government and the local Chiefs for having entered into a land deal with Luxembourg-based SOCFIN.

  • Bolloré-Vilgrain : la terre, la sueur et le sang
    • Survie
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Bolloré, premier des investisseurs français en Afrique, et Vilgrain, représentant de ces derniers, n’ont de cesse de vanter les bénéfices de leurs activités sur le continent pour les populations.

  • Hassad Food seeks Turkish farmland, invests $500 million in 2010
    • Bloomberg
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Qatar’s Hassad Food, a unit of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, plans to purchase farmland in Turkey to grow crops and raise livestock, the company’s chairman said.

  • Le Congo cède des terres aux fermiers sud-africains
    • IPS
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Congo-Brazzaville a cédé 80.000 hectares de terres agricoles à 14 fermiers sud-africains, propriétaires d'une société, 'Congo Agriculture'.

  • Journée mondiale de l’eau : l’Ethiopie aux prises avec un scandale international
    • Survival
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Le gouvernement éthiopien a par ailleurs affecté 180 000 hectares de terres de la vallée de l’Omo à l’investissement agricole dont certaines se trouvent sur les territoires des tribus nyangatom, karo et mursi.

  • Fears of foreigners buying up farmland are growing in Latin America
    • National
    • 21 Mar 2011

    With nations such as China eyeing property all over the world, and with worries over food security growing, Brazil is discussing tightening laws that would make it harder for foreigners to purchase land.

  • Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush
    • Guardian
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Locals move out as international contractors seize opportunities offered by government to lease farmland at knockdown rates

  • Terras em poder de estrangeiros
    • O Estado de S.Paulo
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Já vão longe os tempos em que a posse de terras em áreas diversas do território nacional poderia ser considerada como reserva de valor por pessoas físicas ou jurídicas, transferindo-se do presente para o futuro o potencial produtivo de uma propriedade rural.

  • Limite de terras para estrangeiro é obstáculo
    • O Estado de S.Paulo
    • 20 Mar 2011

    Os limites impostos para a compra ou o arrendamento de terras por estrangeiros no País são apontados pelo grupo de trabalho coordenado pela Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos (SAE) como o principal obstáculo à captação de dinheiro para plantar florestas no Brasil.

  • Argentina: Colonización en tiempos de soja
    • Comunicación Ambiental
    • 20 Mar 2011

    El gobierno de Río Negro firmó un convenio con una empresa estatal china en el que compromete 250.000 hectáreas de tierras para la plantación de soja, trigo, viñas y maíz.

  • Suelo argentino
    • Parlamentario
    • 19 Mar 2011

    Una ley que limite la venta de tierras a inversionistas extranjeros fue la promesa de Cristina Kirchner. Existen 9 proyectos de ley en Diputados que prevén un régimen de la propiedad privada. Sin embargo, durante 2010 no llegó a debatirse en el recinto por decisión del oficialismo.

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